Comments Thread For: Holyfield: The Referee Made a Bad Call, Stopped The Fight Too Quick

[Tatabanya]

This has to be one of the saddest days in my 50 years of watching boxing.

The only thing that was missing is Belfort picking up Holyfield's wallet and running away. It was that pitiful.

[TMLT87]

A lot of bad calls were made before the bell even rang.

[Zaroku]

Jack Paul v Holyfield is incoming

The magic man…. Jake Paul gets big bank and ppl love him.

hope you are well.. I’m doing ok not great..

next Friday I will get promoted or fired..

fired is more likely

[Boxingfanatic75]

Yes, Evander looked bad for the bit of time the fight was on, and age and all that people will say, but the ref stopped it too quickly.

The ref got overexcited or anxious thinking 'age age', and then stopped it like some nutty british ref. Disrespectful.

No, he truly didn’t. Holyfield will be 59 in a month. This isn’t gladiator where we are guaranteed a death at every event. Holyfield had no business in there. If he let it go on and Holyfield dies because of his age it’s on the ref and he’d be run from the sport. If he stops it to save him from himself he’s awful. He was in a no win proposition for a match that should never have been sanctioned in the first place. Holyfield was wrecked by the first marginal body shot and his body language couldn’t have been hidden..

[Boxingfanatic75]

That ref is a complete joke!!! Stopped it way to quickly.. Holyfield wasn’t even hurt.. you don’t get penalized for blocking punches.. clown ref

No, he truly didn’t. Holyfield will be 59 in a month. This isn’t gladiator where we are guaranteed a death at every event. Holyfield had no business in there. If he let it go on and Holyfield dies because of his age it’s on the ref and he’d be run from the sport. If he stops it to save him from himself he’s awful. He was in a no win proposition for a match that should never have been sanctioned in the first place. Holyfield was wrecked by the first marginal body shot and his body language couldn’t have been hidden..

[sbbigmike]

That ref is a complete joke!!! Stopped it way to quickly.. Holyfield wasn’t even hurt.. you don’t get penalized for blocking punches.. clown ref

Naw son b4 he got dropped every damn shot he was stumbling all across the ring it wasn't gonna get better...

[Jab jab boom]

That stoppage probably would’ve looked bad under normal boxing circumstances. But since everyone knew that they somehow allowed a near 60 year old who’s clearly damaged mentally and physically from years of boxing, it was the right call. Actually the right call would’ve been to never allow this nonsense event to have happened in the first place.

[Guest]

Yeah, the poor bastard was so uncoordinated it was like watching a spastic epileptic try to dance the macarena. When you nearly KO yourself trying to throw a punch, you know there's only going to be one winner. A sad day for boxing.

[Robbie Barrett]

That fight was totally embarrassing, the vast majority of members here could have beat Holyfield last night and i'm not joking. He's a fragile old man, everyone involved should be ashamed.

[Oldskoolg]

I sure
hope Holyfield was paid well and intelligently invests this money and makes better choices than he did when he was you get and blew through all of his money with ludicrous purchases and child support from having too many out of wedlock kids. The reason he is back and the reason he fought on so long losing to sub par competition was because he needed the money. Just sad sad stuff.